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...conception of an academic education as essentially a gymnasium for the training of the intellect in preparation for mastering, in the professional schools, facts and theories of lasting importance, as you put it in your editorial of June 11, represents, undoubtedly, the current undergraduate point of view. And yet the facts acquired in college ought to be quite as important as those acquired in the grammar schools and distinctly as important, both from the cultural and practical point of view, as any acquired in the professional schools. That literature, the classics, philosophy, history may have a permanent value in themselves...
...there are really three stages to modern education: elementary, wherein one learns permanently important details, like the sum of two and two; the training of the intellect, begun in the efforts to pass the college boards and continued in the similar effort to pass divisionals; and lastly, the second era of facts and theories of lasting importance--the professional schools...
What more eloquent evidence could be desired of the complete abandonment of the college to criminality of every sort! And the authorities do nothing. Only the intelligentsia, the men with intellect enough to make others work for them during an examination, are punished. Thought is stifled here...
...story of Bartholow is human matter fit for the pen of James of Meredith not unlike "Modern Love" in theme and manner but Meredith devoid of ornament. Bartholow, celebrating liberation of soul and intellect, discovers late the treachery of the liberating Raven "a resident savior domiciled", serene, a hypocrite redeemed by understanding. The woman, Gabrielle, whose tragedy is just a foil for Bartholow's reveals how superficial insincerity can stultify a spirit over-prone to casual conformity, until it dies unnourished. Like a "confidant" the other character--perhaps the post--is an incongruous philosopher who talks a Latinized American appropriate...
...Chauncey Depew. "... convinced me that Chauncey Depew was a phrasemaker of but little intellect, to balance considerable avoirdupois...